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A Personal History of the American Theater

One of Spalding Gray’s signature monologues, “A Personal History of the American Theater” was first presented on November 7, 1980, at the Performing Garage in New York. In 1982, Gray performed the piece again, as part of an eight-week retrospective put on by the Wooster Group. This videotape recording is from the November 28 performance.